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Former Arizona All-American runner Carlos Villarreal retires, citing foot injury

One of the Arizona Wildcats runners of this century is hanging up the cleats.

Former UA track athlete Carlos Villarreal announced last week that he is retiring from professional running due to a lingering foot injury. Villarreal most recently competed for On Athletics Club.

Villarreal detailed his foot injury in a recent Instagram post.

“It was damn near impossible to run without pain,” he wrote. “It began to frustrate me BAD. It got to the point where I became resentful of running. Hated it for a while. Didn’t want anything to do with it. It was hard wanting something so bad and not be able to get even relatively close to it.